The Gettysburg Address

(ONLY PICTURE OF THE PRESIDENT AT GETTYSBURG)
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met
on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that
that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled
here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can
never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far
so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain
- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Setting:

Setting- Thursday, November 19th in Gettysburg Pennsylvania.
Lincoln appealed to the human equality principles in the Declaration of Independence.
The Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest battle in the civil war, resulted in 7,500 dead soldiers, and a thousands dead horses. At the end of the battle he gave his speech to the remaining soldiers who lived. His presence at the dedication of the Gettysburg Cemetery was meant to uplift the spirits of the Union, and to help stop the war.


Thursday November 19,1853
Gettysburg Pennsylvania

(painted picture of the battle) (The end of the battle many men killed) (The cemetery there today)

Historical Context:

• The Battle of Gettysburg
  • one of the BLOODIEST battle in the civil war
  • resulted in 7,500 dead soldiers,
  • thousands dead horses
• Gave the speech at the END of the battle to the remaining living soldiers
• Was meant to UPLIFT the spirits of the Union
• Help stop the war

SPAM:

S-(Speaker)

• Abraham Lincoln

Author's Background

• Born:
  • Feb. 12 1809
  • in Hardin County, Kentucky
• 16th President of the United States
  • March 4th,1861 - April 14, l865(Assassinated)
  • 1st president assassinated
  • During the Civil War
  • Helped strengthen the Republican party
• Led the Union in the Civil War (1861-1865) to prevent the Southern states from seceding from the United States.
• His goal was to unify all the states, where no state was dominant over another
• Helped the U.S. by leading Union to defeat the Confederate States of America in the Civil War
• Against Slavery
  • Promoted the passage of the 13th Amendment (abolishing slavery)

P- (Purpose)

• was to
  • uplift the spirit of the union
  • remind soldiers of the reasons for fighting
  • the responsibility soldiers have to those men fallen in the war

A-(Audience)

• US citizens

M-(Medium)

• spoken 4 months after the battle of Gettysburg on the battle field (November 19th, 1863)

Rhetorical Devices:

Allusion

• “Four score and seven years ago out fathers brought forth . . . a new nation . . . That all mean are created equal . . . ”
  • Refers to 1776 the Constitution
• “. . . In a great civil war. . .”
  • Refers to the civil war

Anaphora

• “. . . WE can not dedicate- WE can not consecrate- WE can not hallow this ground . . .”

Repetition

• “ . . .And the government of the PEOPLE, by the PEOPLE, for the PEOPLE . . .”
• WORDS through out the speech
  • Dedicate
  • Consecrate
  • Devotion
  • People

Parallelism

• “. . . We can not dedicate-We can not consecrate- We can not hallow this ground . . .”

Appeals:

Logos-

• logical appeals
• " . . . to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so noble carried on . . . "

Pathos-

• emotional appeal
  
• " . . . to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so noble carried on . . . "
• " . . .that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; . . . "

Mythos-

• traditional appeals
  
• "Four score and seven years ago . . ."
  
  • Abraham Lincoln used this referencing a part of history the signing of the Constitution in 1776

Presentation by: Victoria Brown, Jesse Shepps, A.J. Mosley, David Garcia, Luis Dupree